Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, Hampshire, United Kingdom Council meetings, 11 Jul 2022

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From YouTube: BasingstokeGov 7/11/2022 - Licensing Committee

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uh Good evening, everybody welcome to this meeting of the license procedures. There are no fire alarms scheduled for this evening. Therefore, if the fire alarm sounds, please evacuate the building immediately. The fire exit is located at the rear of this room, go down the stairs and meet in the War Memorial Park. Thank you very much um right. So we'll kick off. If we may apologize for absence and substitutions I think we've. We have an apology from councilor Tom, no substitute I, take it no other absentees, Declarations of Interest.

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Anybody who wish to uh haven't announced any Declarations of Interest no urgent matters. As far as I know, there are no most urgent matters to me because you've got any matters they wish to raise about the minutes. Are you all content that they be signed? Yeah. Thank you very much so down to number five annual update report. 2021-22 Emma Coles will give us a brief breakdown and then, if anybody wishes to raise any matters, they can.

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Information on the licenses that we process and so I've put together this pack for you specifically, you asked for the saving and give or take a little bit it's forty thousand a year, foreign.

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Does anybody wish to raise any points on on the various graphs that we showed behind this report? No. Thank you very much. In that case, we'll move on to number item six approval for adoption of the charity collection policy following uh following consultation, so that takes us down to page 27.

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So the purpose of this report is to update the members of the licensing Committee of the outcome of the public consultation on the draft charity collections policy, which I think was before us on July the 4th. uh If we, when we get to 2.3, we note that, during the consultation period no representations were received. So on the basis that we already discussed the report on July, the 4th is everybody content that we move on to item seven.

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Thank you very much. We'll move on to item seven. If we may amendments to the Hackney carriage and private hire licensing policy, I think the point we perhaps need to emphasize.

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I'm. Sorry! Yes, sorry.

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Last charity collection policy: we just need to vote for the adoption all.

B

Right, okay, I thought: we'd done that at full Council; no, okay, no.

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That was your license.

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Right, okay, so we are we all content that we adopt the the the the policy for uh con. You know for for a charity collection, okay, agreed! Thank you very much. In that case, we move on to item seven amendments to the Hackney carriage and private higher licensing policy. I think they then point to emphasize here is that the um the policies the policy it's itself has been discussing here is simply the three amendments which are being proposed by the licensing offices.

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So I presume the simplest way is to take each Amendment one by one as it's. If I understood what page.

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Yeah sorry I've lost the page. It belong.

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To remove the requirement for private hire vehicles to display a front plate to the more environmental friendly stick-on plates feet on the vehicles, and it would provide consistency across the entire.

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Originally, on there I understood was for people getting these this. You know from my perspective, I, don't know whether we should look at in other areas, especially in the cities where people well I, don't know what I don't know. What the answer is to that, if I'm honest with you but I'll, just raise it um yeah.

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The I'm the reason that we're happy to um put this amendment on all private hire Vehicles the large doors which is the vehicle it's going to be on the rear door or the side of the vehicle. It's much more visible. There's identifier, um but, to be honest with you, the front plate is only about.

B

Thank you very much so we'll move on to amendment number two of the portfolio to be displayed on the mount.

H

A company called VIP um and the VIP plates were quite decent. They had to be mounted onto a plate which support which we're calling a plate, but isn't one is a self-adhesive sticker? Is it P.

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uh One should add that all vehicles are licensed annually so.

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This President people listen to the publicly since the pandemic, simply Dynamic simply don't carry carry cash any longer um and I appreciate your pointle area. um Is there a risk that that card payment May then be declined? There is always a risk in the same way that drivers have always run the risk of people bilking and leaving the vehicle without paying by any form or the same way that drivers have always risked being passed.

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um Counterfeit notes in what is often a very low light situation in the in a taxi cab at two o'clock in them. I would have sold it, but I feel the photo. Take you point. Counselor companies now are.

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Going mandatory for all because I have cons, um some people can't their pocket and I. Just wonder whether you.

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It's the way that's going, this isn't about stopping or payment options for our customers. If someone wants to get in and pay with.

G

I would agree with you.

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um Programs there is addition, so it makes it clear it's in addition to cash, but I think the wording will be better rather than by inference, say that Kashi.

H

I I find, quite frankly um because uh that's it there's there's a lot of payments, because uh private hire paid transactions are routinely done over them. If.

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It was explicit rather than implicit, I think that would be as.

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An authority we would be adverse to that Amendment.

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Thank you very much Mr chair. If you're a taxi driver and the hours they do, especially on the weekends they'll be vulnerable if they've got cash, only I think this is kind of clear he's, a help in that, uh first of all bring it into the 21st century, the trade, but at the same time, they're going to carry usually give them the opportunity to use these just because of their safety.

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No I can safely say that we do View, Drive um and yes, I mean we've been very fortunate here that we we haven't I. Think in the time that I've been in the post here, I think we've only had a ham and reducing the amount of cash carried in a vehicle has to be a good thing.

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um Comment: I'm I'm content about card payments, I just wouldn't want to see printers being mandatory.

H

In my view is a good idea, um but it's not a mandatory. It's not mandatory on the requirement here. The the bit that they must be able to do is hand is give a receipt um and, and the facility for that exists, um so yeah.

B

Every app everybody happy for us to accept the amendment so.

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I just wanted to make a comment that many of the drivers now they will text the link and you just click on it, and it gives you the receipt so I think I think receipts will probably not paper. Receipts won't be as needed down the line.

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Thank you very much we're happy to accept that Amendment. Thank you very much so we'll move on. If we give an update on the items scheduled at the meeting. Thank you. I'm coming up in February.